Concept
Deism
Overview
belief in God without revelation
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The Church of England through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had "pursued a liberal latitudinarian policy which, as a mode of thought, tended to promote deism by emphasizing rational religion and minimizing revelation."[i-35] It was to be expected that in colonies created by Puritans (or even Quakers), deism would have a less spectacular and extensive success than it appears to have had in the mother…
Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
Names Deism several times.
The Christian religion was wavering between its own historically positive base and a pure deism, which, grounded on morality, was in its turn to lay the foundation of ethics. The diversity of characters and modes of thought here showed itself in infinite gradations, especially when a leading difference was brought into play by the question arising as to how great a share the reason, and how…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Autobiography of Goethe Truth and Poetry
Opens on Deism; names Deism.
If we are to give the name of cognition to a mere mode of representation (which is quite permissible if the latter is not a principle of the theoretical determination of what an object is in itself, but of the practical determination of what the Idea of it should be for us and for its purposive use), then all our knowledge of God is merely symbolical; and he who regards it as schematical, along with the properties…
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement
The author is tied to Deism in the knowledge graph; opens on Deism.
Philosophers who discussed Deism
- Edmund Burke
- William Wollaston
- George Berkeley
- Antony Flew
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John Locke
- Joseph Butler
- Adam Smith
- Anthony Collins (philosopher)
- Baron d'Holbach
- Claude Adrien Helvétius
- Herbert Spencer
- René Descartes
- Reform Judaism
- Jean Bodin
- Thomas Paine
- Voltaire
- Walt Whitman
- Baruch Spinoza
- Hypatia
- Bertrand Russell
- Robert Boyle
- Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
- Charles Hartshorne
Related ideas
- Ātman (Hinduism)
- Globe Pequot Publishing Group
- William Wollaston
- John Adams
- Hellenistic philosophy
- Santa Barbara, California
- Fear
- Yale University Press
- Washington, D.C.
- Jesus
- God in Christianity
- Turkey
- French Revolution
- BBC News
- Early modern Europe
- Princeton University Press
- Geneva
- Gospel
- Innatism
- The Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Philosophy
- Western philosophy
- Abrahamic religions
- Anno Domini
Opposing perspectives
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Narrower topics:
- Anno Domini
- Anthropocentrism
- Berlin
- British Empire
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Chichester
- Classical theism
- Cult of Reason
- De Gruyter Brill
- Divine providence
- Dordrecht
- Durham, North Carolina
- Early modern Europe
- Fear
- First Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Frederick the Great
- Geneva
- Gospel
- Heidelberg
- Helena Blavatsky
- Johann Georg Hamann
- Kingdom of France
- New Haven, Connecticut